{"id":823345,"date":"2025-01-31T10:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T16:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/31\/come-to-the-party-in-time-tardy-anc\/"},"modified":"2025-01-31T10:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T16:14:10","slug":"come-to-the-party-in-time-tardy-anc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/31\/come-to-the-party-in-time-tardy-anc\/","title":{"rendered":"Come to the party in time, tardy ANC"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From last-minute venue changes to missing deadlines, the ANC\u2019s inability to plan raises serious questions about their capacity to lead effectively.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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All dressed up and nowhere to go\u2026 that\u2019s how some ANC members will feel ahead of today\u2019s 113th anniversary celebrations at the 22 000-capacity Mandela Park Stadium in Khayelitsha. <\/p>\n

ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula on Sunday defended the party\u2019s decision to host its January 8 Statement at a smaller venue than usual, insisting it had nothing to do with budget constraints, but all to do with \u201creconnecting with the party\u2019s support base\u201d. <\/p>\n

The DA\u2019s Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis, however, said it couldn\u2019t be further from the truth: \u201cFor the record, the ANC did not book the Khayelitsha stadium \u2018out of concern\u2019 for residents. They\u2019re lying. They booked it because they were too incompetent to book any other venue in time. They tried to book Cape Town Stadium in mid-November 2024. It was already booked for a Stormers game. Then they tried Athlone Stadium. It was booked for the Klopse Carnival.\u201d <\/p>\n

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He added: \u201cSeveral ANC office bearers called me asking for help in late November and early December. They said we were trying to sabotage them by refusing the stadium. The last conversation I had was on 5 December, and by then they still hadn\u2019t made a booking. So please don\u2019t believe their nonsense.\u201d <\/p>\n

The party usually uses the annual event to outline its plans for the year ahead. If they can\u2019t even plan to book a venue in time \u2013 and then try and hide their tardiness \u2013 how can anyone take their plans seriously?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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From last-minute venue changes to missing deadlines, the ANC\u2019s inability to plan raises serious questions about their capacity to lead effectively. Picture: Michel Bega All dressed up and nowhere to go\u2026 that\u2019s how some ANC members will feel ahead of today\u2019s 113th anniversary celebrations at the 22 000-capacity Mandela Park Stadium in Khayelitsha. ANC secretary-general<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":823346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2341,141307],"tags":[6546,141306],"class_list":{"0":"post-823345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-party","8":"category-tardy","9":"tag-party","10":"tag-tardy"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}